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Obama: GOP Working to Accelerate Income Inequality

In a discussion with George Stephanopoulos Sunday, President Obama addressed the rising income gap, but called the Republicans out on their efforts to increase income inequality.

"The problem that we’ve got right now is you’ve got a portion of Congress whose policies don’t just want to leave things alone, they actually want to accelerate these trends,” the President said.

"There’s no serious economist out there that would suggest that if you took the Republican agenda of slashing education further, slashing Medicare further, slashing research and development further, slashing investments in infrastructure further, that that would reverse some of these trends."